Rosa fedtschenkoana

Pink fedtschenkoana

Pink fedtschenkoana is a native of Central Asia, Wild Rose. Some botanists see in this rose beggeriana a subspecies of Rosa.

Pink fedtschenkoana was discovered by Olga Alexandrovna Fedchenko on a trip through Central Asia into Turkestan and taken to Saint Petersburg. The German botanist Eduard August von Regel described this type of rose for the first time in 1878 and dedicated it to the discoverer. DNA tests have shown that the damask rose, and remontant and moss roses of pink fedtschenkoana descended. This is clarified, where the remontant genes of the Western roses come.

Description

Pink fedtschenkoana forms shrubs that spread by stolons with roots stem elongation and thus grow up to 6 meters wide and reach stature heights of up to 2.5 m. Young twigs drive from whitish and densely covered with first crimson, long spines. Your gray-green, odd pinnate leaves are 3 to 4.5 cm long with petioles.

It flowers from early summer to continually into the autumn with hermaphrodite, radial symmetry, five-fold, white, unpleasant smelling flowers, which have a diameter of 2 to 4 cm and either one or in small groups of two to three. It is hardy to -35 ° C ( USDA zone 4). The diameter of 1.5 to 2 cm large rose hips are pear-shaped and bright red. They contain up to 6.6% ascorbic acid ( vitamin C) in the dry matter.

Dissemination

Pink fedtschenkoana is native to Central Asia; she is from Kazakhstan to the People's Republic of China belonging autonomous region Xinjiang distribution and is there at altitudes up to 2700 m before.